Infidel
['ɪnfɪd(ə)l] or ['ɪnfədl]
Definition
(a.) Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity.
(n.) One who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Unbeliever (in revealed religion), ATHEIST, sceptic, freethinker.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Skeptic, unbeliever, heretic, freethinker
ANT:Believer, Christian, devotee
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Definition
adj. unbelieving: sceptical: disbelieving Christianity.—n. one who rejects Christianity as a divine revelation but the word is not used of heathens.—n. Infidel′ity want of faith or belief: disbelief in Christianity: unfaithfulness esp. to the marriage contract: treachery.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of and niggardly contributory to divines ecclesiastics popes parsons canons monks mollahs voodoos presbyters hierophants prelates obeah-men abbes nuns missionaries exhorters deacons friars hadjis high-priests muezzins brahmins medicine-men confessors eminences elders primates prebendaries pilgrims prophets imaums beneficiaries clerks vicars-choral archbishops bishops abbots priors preachers padres abbotesses caloyers palmers curates patriarchs bonezs santons beadsmen canonesses residentiaries diocesans deans subdeans rural deans abdals charm-sellers archdeacons hierarchs class-leaders incumbents capitulars sheiks talapoins postulants scribes gooroos precentors beadles fakeers sextons reverences revivalists cenobites perpetual curates chaplains mudjoes readers novices vicars pastors rabbis ulemas lamas sacristans vergers dervises lectors church wardens cardinals prioresses suffragans acolytes rectors cures sophis mutifs and pumpums.
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Examples
- I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In my eyes you too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But Nicholas was neither an habitual drunkard nor a thorough infidel. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Up, infidel dog when I command you, said Prince John, or I will have thy swarthy hide stript off, and tanned for horse-furniture. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This speech concluded with a challenge to the infidel, at the end of which it was Eustacia's duty to enter as the Turkish Knight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Preparation by books had failed, owing to the doctor's infidel obstinacy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the infidel dogs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The infidel Jew--it was merit with heaven to deal with him as I did, else wherefore are men canonized who dip their hands in the blood of Saracens? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- An infidel to _your_ religion, an atheist to _your_ god. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was Magdala over again, only here the glare from the infidel eyes was fierce and full of hate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When they got among foreigners, they do not seem to have realized that they were not already among the infidel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I believe she is an infidel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The smoke had a vile taste, and the taste of a thousand infidel tongues that remained on that brass mouthpiece was viler still. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tremble lest in that case you should be numbered with those who have denied the faith, and are worse than infidels! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am beset here with neighbours that match your infidels, Sir Knight, in Holy Land. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- These truces with the infidels, he exclaimed, without caring how suddenly he interrupted the stately Templar, make an old man of me! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The spirit of Grimes was upon me, and if I had had a graveyard I would have destroyed all the infidels in Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We are ready to expose our breasts, exposed ten thousand times before, to the balls and scymetars of the infidels, and to fall gloriously for Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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